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Hyperion

Listening During Covid, Part 9: Intriguing New Works and New-Sounding C. P. E. Bach

A varied buffet of fresh musical experiences from recent decades and from the mid-1700s.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Amanda Harberg, Gilbert Kalish, Gunther Schuller, Hyperion, Innova, James Freeman, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Paul Cohen, Ralph P. Locke, Ravello, Robert Freeman, Robert Sibbing, Soprano Summit

Classical Music CD Review: Hensel & Mendelssohn String Quartets

This is an album of real spirit and vigor, a mix of the thoughtful and the exciting, all bracingly recorded.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Hyperion, The Takács Quartet

November Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: Allen Michie, Angela-Hewitt, BR Klassik, Bright Shiny Things, Glenn, Glenn Rifkin, Hannah Collins, Hannah Kendall, Henry Beston, Huntington Theater Company, Hyperion, Joann Green Breuer, Jonathan Blumhofer, Lisa Fischer, Love songs, Phoenix, Resonance Line, Resonance Lines, Riccardo Muti, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Stewart Goodyear, Susan Miron, The Outermost House, Witch

Classical Album Review: The Nash Ensemble — Bruch’s Chamber Music

One could hardly ask for more persuasive Bruch advocacy than what the Nash Ensemble offers here.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Hyperion, Jonathan Blumhofer, Nash Ensemble

Classical CD Review: György Ligeti’s “Études” — Well Played and Clearly Lived In

Throughout these Études, Driver’s playing marries tonal warmth with textural precision.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: Danny Driver, Etudes, György Ligeti, Hyperion

Listening During Covid, Part 4: Fascinating Vocal Adventures from Different Times and Places

I may be in quarantine, but music can transport me back to the Middle Ages, or to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia, or, via Donizetti, to an imagined India.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: " Opera Rara, ATMA Classique, Donizetti, Guillaume de Machaut, Hyperion, Il paria, Karina Gauvin, Ralph P. Locke, The Orlando Consort

Classical CD Reviews: Listening During COVID — Beethoven’s Jesus, Liszt’s Variations on “Norma,” and Janáček’s Animal Opera

Concert halls and opera houses remain closed — but unusual musical experiences await in this era of social isolation.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Hyperion, LSO Live, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Ralph P. Locke, Simon Rattle’, The Cunning Little Vixen.

Classical CD Reviews: Beethoven Complete Piano Concerto Box Sets

It’s Beethoven’s 250th birthday year: reviews of four sets of the complete piano concertos from, respectively, Paul Lewis, Stewart Goodyear, Inon Barnatan, and Stephen Hough.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Alan Gilbert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Inon Barnatan, Jiri Belohlavek, Orchid Classics, Paul Lewis, Pentatone, Stephen Hough, Stewart Goodyear

Classical CD Review: “Janáček: Solo Piano,” Schumann & Mendelssohn Chamber Music, Philip Glass Piano Works

Pianist Thomas Adès proves himself a sympathetic champion of Czech composer Leoš Janáček; it’s not often that a Schumann-Mendelssohn album focuses on the music of Clara and Fanny (rather than Robert and Felix); Jenny Lin’s performances of piano pieces by Philip Glass don’t lack for style or technical command.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Hyperion, Janáček: Solo Piano, Jenny Lin, Philip Glass Piano Works, Signum, Steinway & Sons, The Nash Ensemble

Classical CD Reviews: Beach & Elgar Piano Quintets, Mark Abel’s “The Cave of Wondrous Voice,” and Ibragimova plays Shostakovich

It took more than a century, but Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet has finally got the recording it deserves; it would be hard to beat the all-star line-up featured in The Cave of Wondrous Voice; and ready for some flawless Shostakovich?

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Alina Ibragimova, Amy Beach, Delos, Garrick Ohlsson, Hyperion, Mark Abel, The Cave of Wondrous Voice

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